Changes in Answer Files

This topic lists the changes made in the answer files for Microsoft® Windows® XP and the Windows Server 2003 family.

Unattend.txt

The following sections are new in Unattend.txt:

• [IEHardening] section
• [WindowsFirewall]
• [WindowsFirewall.profile_name]
• [WindowsFirewall.program_name]
• [WindowsFirewall.service_name]
• [WindowsFirewall.portopening_name]
• [WindowsFirewall.icmpsetting_name]

Entries have been added to the following sections:

[Components] section

• IEHardenAdmin: Applies the Enhanced Security Configuration to members of the Administrators and Power Users groups.
• IEHardenUser: Applies the Enhanced Security Configuration to members of the Restricted Users and Guests groups.
• WbemCrrl: Specifies whether to install the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) event correlation component.
• WbemFwrd: Specifies whether to install the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) event forwarding components.
• WbemMSI: Specifies whether to install the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Windows installer provider.

[Data] section

• AutomaticUpdates: Specifies whether to enable Automatic Updates.

[GuiUnattended] section

• EMSSkipUnattendProcessing: Prevents Windows Setup from processing Unattend.txt or Sysprep.inf during an unattended installation to an EMS server.

[Unattended] section

• DUStopOnError: Specifies whether to stop the Windows Update process when an error is detected.

Entries have been deleted from the following sections:

[Components] section

• iis_www_vdir_scripts
• AutoUpdate

Sysprep.inf

The following section is new in Sysprep.inf:

• [IEHardening] section

Entries have been added to the following sections:

[GuiUnattended] section

• EMSSkipUnattendProcessing: Prevents Windows Setup from processing Unattend.txt or Sysprep.inf during an unattended installation to an EMS server.